Global superpowers meet, Joe Biden-Xi Jinping stress on US-China relationship's impact on world

US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping stressed their responsibility to the rest of the world to avoid conflict as the heads of the two top global economies opened their closely watched talks

Washington: The highly-anticipated meeting between US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping kick-started earlier today (November 16, IST), with the two global superpowers discussing key issues and conflicts virtually. "The US-China bilateral relationship “seems to me to have a profound impact not only in our countries, but quite frankly the rest of the world," Biden said.

Here are some of the important things that the two heads of states said at the meeting.

1) It seems to be our responsibility as the leaders of China and the United States to ensure that the competition between our countries does not veer into conflict, whether intended or unintended, rather than simple, straightforward competition: Joe Biden